Click on the highlighted links to find the books and articles listed. Most are downloadable in pdf fromat. UPDATE: MSN has killed it’s digitizaiton project, therefore some of these links may be inactive. I’ll fix them as I find them. If you have a new link for the dead ones, leave me a note. Also, if you know of a link I don’t have listed here, let me know.

[…] Help Here I don’t know how many of you have visited my page for First Bull Run Books and Articles On Line, but it has become a bit of a monster. And I mean that in a good way. In addition to links to […]

[…] JCCW reports are available online for free, and I’ve linked to them on my First Bull Run Books and Articles On-Line page, but I like to have the book to hold in my hand and browse. I probably should not have […]

[…] that WordPress provides is an all-time ranking of page views for individual posts. As of today, First Bull Run Books and Articles On-Line leads the pack with 794 views (exclusive of feed readers). Surprisingly, in second place with 660 […]

[…] has given up on its digitization project. A good many of the digital books I have listed on my First Bull Run Books and Articles On-Line page are part of this project. For now the links work, but if the project indeed “goes dark”, […]

[…] Run Books and Articles On-Line 24 01 2010 I’ve updated my list of Bull Run books and articles available on-line and found alternate sources for most of the titles I’d found on the now defunct Microsoft […]

Dulce bellum inexpertis

“I am sending you these little incidents as I hear them well authenticated. They form, to the friends of the parties, part of the history of the glorious 21st. More anon.”

About

Hello! I’m Harry Smeltzer and welcome to Bull Runnings, where you'll find my digital history project on the First Battle of Bull Run which is organized under the Bull Run Resources section. I'll also post my thoughts on the processes behind the project and commentary on the campaign, but pretty much all things Civil War are fair game. You'll only find musings on my “real job” or my personal life when they relate to this project. My mother always told me "never discuss politics or religion in mixed company”, and that's sound advice where current events are concerned.

The Project

This site is more than a blog. Bull Runnings also hosts digitized material pertaining to First Bull Run. In the Bull Run Resources link in the masthead and also listed below are links to Orders of Battle, After Action Reports, Official Correspondence, Biographical Sketches, Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, Newspaper Accounts and much, much more. Take some time to surf through the material. This is a work in process with no end in sight, so check back often!